Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mcaserta31/Archive

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Block evasion, POV pushing and personal attacks on editors on behalf of subject of Sholam Weiss, whose felony convictions were the subject of a presidential commutation on Jan. 19, 2021. Activity largely took place in the article, but also on National Heritage Life Insurance Company, talk pages and noticeboards. One of the accounts, U|HershyMarton, claims to be a nephew of Weiss and has admitted to soliciting edits off-wiki on behalf of Weiss. There has indeed been off-wiki canvassing to recruit editing on behalf of Weiss on social media. The social media meatpuppetry targeting the article, is apparently reflected in the activities of these socks and IPs. Evidence of that can be provided to administrators privately. However I think that behavior is sufficient for action on these IPs and accounts

Mcaserta31 and TheOnly1TruthSeeker have already been blocked and the IPs and other users listed here picked up the slack in a concerted effort to whitewash the subject of the article, so this is at minimum socking to evade a block. Sholam Weiss is now semi-protected but the persons behind this effort will no doubt resume their socking once it is lifted.

See diffs below, Because of the sheer volume of editing by these socks, this is just a partial list. Unless otherwise noted, the edits consist of POV pushing (removal of text, addition of extraneous or poorly sourced material) in Sholam Weiss:

Mcaserta:  (account blocked)

HershyMarton:  (real-name account; attacking editors for "slander"  (admits to off-wiki canvassing);

Yossischlussel:  (personal attack)

User01217:

TheOnly1TruthSeeker:  (account blocked)

2600:1002:b024:8fea:de9:6516:a14d:8bdd:

47.17.126.212:

74.65.205.121:   (personal attack in edit summary)

204.128.182.12:

Not familiar with the procedure but I request checkuser, if that would not otherwise be done. Coretheapple (talk) 17:12, 6 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Please note that Mcaserta31's block was a checkuser block. I have started this SPI in their name because this was the most recent blocked sockpuppet account relating to the Sholam Weiss article. Sholam Weiss has been edited by multiple SPA and COI accounts going back years. All the current spate of edits, like the past ones, have whitewashed the subject. I believe WP:DUCK applies. A link to the off-wiki canvassing, if necessary, can be provided. Coretheapple (talk) 14:49, 7 February 2021 (UTC) comment expanded. 16:18, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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I’d just like to call attention to the comment from HershyMarton admitting to off-wiki canvassing of meatpuppets: "most of my chat room friends that have edited this page for many months with 100% true facts have been locked out of wiki." So some of the accounts noted here may be meatpuppets rather than sockpuppets. Checkuser can sort it out. -- MelanieN (talk) 03:46, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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 * to the others above:


 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I've blocked HershyMarton for the aforementioned CU-confirmed block evasion. My impression is that Marton/TruthSeeker are a different person from Mcaserta, and that as noted above there is probably canvassing or off-wiki coordination going on. I've left the other accounts unblocked since they haven't been active since the page protection went in place. Continued page protection is probably the best approach here. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:18, 13 March 2021 (UTC)